Whereas most prokaryotes rely on binary fission for propagation, many species use alternative mechanisms, which include multiple offspring formation and budding, to reproduce. In some bacterial ...

New research shows bacteria form distinct species and maintain cohesion through frequent DNA exchange via homologous recombination. When Kostas Konstantinidis proved that many microbes -- like plants ...

Six years later, the German botanist Ferdinand Cohn published a monograph on the occurrence, cultivation, morphology, behaviour, reproduction, nutrition, and systematics of a group of microorganisms ...